North Carolina Personalized Assessment Tool
Purpose and Overview
The North Carolina Personalized Assessment Tool is a system of through-course assessment opportunities aimed towards a balanced assessment system that will provide granular data for immediate feedback about students’ performance throughout the year. The system is currently being developed as a pilot under the U.S Department of Education’s Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority (IADA).
The current design purposes of North Carolina Personalized Assessment Tool are:
- To provide educators, students, and stakeholders with immediate and detailed feedback on grade-level-specific content standards so classroom instruction may be tailored to individual student’s needs;
- To provide a progress indicator for each interim on individual student’s performance in relation to overall grade level performance expectation (earliest availability in the 2023–24 school year); and
- To serve as a reliable indicator to determine appropriate staged adaptive summative assessment that will provide an academic achievement level for students and for the statewide accountability model.
Transition from NC Check-Ins to NC Check-Ins 2.0
|
Grade/Subject |
2022–23 |
2023–24 |
|
Grade 3 Reading and Mathematics |
NC Check-In |
NC Check-In 2.0 |
|
Grade 4 Reading and Mathematics |
NC Check-In 2.0 |
NC Check-In 2.0 |
|
Grade 5 Reading and Mathematics |
NC Check-In 2.0 |
NC Check-In 2.0 |
|
Grade 6 Reading and Mathematics |
NC Check-In |
NC Check-In 2.0 |
|
Grade 7 Reading and Mathematics |
NC Check-In 2.0 |
NC Check-In 2.0 |
|
Grade 8 Reading and Mathematics |
NC Check-In 2.0 |
NC Check-In 2.0 |
|
Grade 5 and 8 Science |
NC Check-In |
NC Check-In |
|
English II |
NC Check-In |
NC Check-In |
|
Biology |
NC Check-In |
NC Check-In |
|
NC Math 1 and NC Math 3 |
NC Check-In |
NC Check-In |
Resources
Interim and Flexible Summative Availability by Year
| Participation | 2021–22 | 2022–23 | 2023–24 |
|---|---|---|---|
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Pilot Schools |
Grades 4 and 7
Grades 3, 5, 6, and 8
|
Grades 4 and 7
Grades 5 and 8
Grades 3 and 6
|
Grades 4, 5, 7 and 8
Grades 3 and 6
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Accessing NC Check-Ins and NC Check-Ins 2.0 Reports
Teacher-level reports are available to help teachers individualize support and instruction for student learning throughout the year. Reports for both NC Check-Ins and NC Check-Ins 2.0 are accessible in the NC Education online reporting system. Teachers are linked to these reports through PowerSchool enrollments. Additionally, NC Check-Ins reports are available from the district testing coordinator or regional computing consultant (for charter and lab schools) in a paper format, whereas NC Check-Ins 2.0 reports are available only through the online reporting system.
To access reports through the online reporting system, the teacher’s email address in PowerSchool must match the teacher’s email address on the NC Education account. The teacher must have students in the appropriate course code in PowerSchool. Teachers listed as “teacher 2” for coteaching classes will not have access to the reports.